When it comes to developmental activities in kids you need to know that they should always be encouraged to engage in play activities, regardless of where they are taking place. They can play outdoors as well as indoors but the fact that they are engaging in play is what counts for everything. If you did not know this there are a few different types of play activities that one can engage in like the windy play and even the water play.
Water play is something that you will read about in a lot of parenting and psychology related texts, apart from that you will also notice water play activities in schools, preschools and nurseries. Apparently water play has an important factor in the development and exploration period of children, so they are not just fun activities that serve no purpose at all. There are a lot of benefits of water table or water play that parents do not know about, if you want to read more you can check them out below.
Improvement in Motor Coordination
For children you are just starting their phase of play, sand and water tables and activities are the best way of improving motor coordination of hand and eye. A very interesting activity which might seem like it has no purpose but pouring water and transferring it into another container actually helps in improving the grasp on the container and also trains their eyes, and hand and eye coordination gets improved.
Vocabulary Build Up
Another thing is that sand and water tables help in making alphabets and learning spellings of different words which directly helps in improving their vocabulary as well. You can do tracing activities and a lot more which helps the children in brushing up their wordlist.
